Hasan Ali – The Man, the Boy & the Donkey Story

			So the story is, there's the man and the donkey. What happens is he goes with his donkey and man is
donkey and he's got his son. So the man is actually old. He's an old man, his son is a young boy.
And what happens is, in the beginning, the the old man is riding the donkey and he has like his
young young son, he's walking along with him. Okay, because it's gonna be too much for for the
donkey to take too. So when they passed the first village, the village has look and they say, Ah,
look at that. Look at that, old man. He has no mercy for his young son. He's riding the donkey but
his young son is is walking. So when they hear that the old man says, Hey, son, you know, let me get
		

			off you get on. Okay. So his son gets on he gets off passed by the next village. The village is Ah,
look at this young man is young, he can walk here, he could walk. Why does he have mercy on the old
his old father and put him on the donkey? So the father thought, you know, oh my god. Okay, sir. You
know what, let's do something yet. You come down, and I'll come down. And let's basically just just
just walk both of us side by side of the donkey so they don't make that comment. So the past by the
third village and third we said, oh, what stupid people they are. They could at least one of them
could get on the donkey right? What stupid people they are. So then, you know, they passed the
		

			father said look, this is not working. Okay, let's let's do one thing. Let's let's get myself and
yourself both. We're both getting on the donkey. So both of them going on the donkey. Fourth
village, they passed by that and
		

			these people, they have no mercy on the donkey. Right? The poor donkey carrying two of them.
		

			So then they the father gets off and he says to suncare have looked on he said we tried it. We tried
you. Okay. They talk tried me. They talk. We tried both of us off the top. We tried both was on the
top of the seat. He said there's only one thing to do, right. So he got some rope out. He tied the
donkeys legs. And he tried the other legs at the front. And he picked two of the legs of the donkey.
And his son picked the two legs of the donkey. And now they're carrying the donkey.
		

			You can imagine what happened by the time they got to the fifth village right? They say oh my god
stupid people. These are right. They're supposed to use the donkey to guide them that kind of
donkey. Right? So so the thing is, if you run into trying to please people, doesn't matter how hard
you try, they're gonna say something or another. Okay, so you can't please everyone. This now once
you've understood this, you gotta understand that Allah azza wa jal he praises the believers by
saying, You don't fear the criticism of those who are going to blame you because people will always
say something about you. This is life. People will always say something even if they even if you do
		

			something right. They will say something about you you're doing something wrong of course they're
gonna say something about you. So you got to lead your life according to who you think you know what
your principles are. Now as believers according to Quran, our principles are metadata Allah which
means that anything that we do, we want to find the pleasure of Allah azza wa jal. Now, let me give
you an idea of the Quran reference, so that you can find find this inshallah later on. So surah
number two and number 265. Allah azza wa jal says that we're Matthew Lavina, Yun, Kupuna and Walla.
An example of those people who spend their wealth who give give their wealth if the amount of
		

			Bartylla so that they can seek the pleasure of Allah azza wa jal what to feed them in unfussy him so
that they can solidify their own self. Now, what happens is, when you do it for Allah sake, you
actually make yourself solid on the earth. Why? Because when people follow, let's say, Look, when
people follow others, and every time they follow others, what happens is that eventually you're
going to feel that if I've got this person's pleasure, I'm fine. And what happens after a while is
people's mood changes, okay? People moods change people's, you know, people's ways change, people's
cultures change. Okay?